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Actor’s capabilities appear to be growing with execution of new, custom-developed framework<\/h2>\n

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\n DENVER<\/span>, June 22, 2021<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ — Black Lotus Labs, the threat intelligence arm of Lumen<\/a> Technologies\u00a0(NYSE: LUMN), today released a detailed report<\/a>\u00a0about a suspected Pakistani threat actor that executed a custom-developed framework to compromise multiple targets in South Asia<\/span>, including a power company in India<\/span>. <\/p>\n

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The threat is noteworthy because of the steps it takes to avoid detection and the critical nature of the targets.<\/div>\n

In the report, Black Lotus Labs details how it detected a new remote access trojan (RAT) it’s calling ReverseRat \u2013 which was deployed in parallel with an open-source RAT called Allakore \u2013 to infect machines and achieve persistence. Based on the team’s global telemetry and analysis, it determined that the actor is targeting government and energy organizations in the South and Central Asia<\/span> regions, and it has operational infrastructure hosted in Pakistan<\/span>. <\/p>\n

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